Release history

NXPowerLite

Release history

NXPowerLite Desktop Edition 5.0.2 (1 February 2011)

Bugs fixed

Email client integration: Already optimized PPTX, DOCX or XLSX files could crash the email client.

Known problems

NXPowerLite does not integrate with 64-bit Office 2010 applications
NXPowerLite does not integrate with Windows Mail in 64-bit Windows OS

NXPowerLite Desktop Edition 5.0.1 (27 January 2011)

Features

NXPowerLite can now optimize PDF files

Reworked optimization settings

Added the ability to optimize without resize for JPEG files
Added PDF file optimization settings
Improved the grouping of optimization settings
NXPowerLite now 'remembers' the last set of custom settings
Removed the 'optimized files' hyperlink on main window and replaced with a textbox and edit button
Added Widescreen resolutions to resize option drop-downs
Removed custom widescreen setting
Default settings changed to improve image quality on higher resolution screens

Bugs fixed

Embedded package icons in DOC files could look strange after optimization.
Embedded object images in PPT files could look strange after optimization

Other changes

New bulk deployment options (see 'Deployment Guide' document)
In-application artwork updated
Awarded 'Works with Windows 7' accreditation from Microsoft
Email client integration: NXPowerLite now 'remembers' the last enabled / disabled state for new emails
(Lotus Notes settings 'remembered' per session, not per email)

Known problems

NXPowerLite does not integrate with 64-bit Office 2010 applications
NXPowerLite does not integrate with Windows Mail in 64-bit Windows OS

XPowerLite Desktop Edition / Stand-Alone Edition 4.3.1 (20 December 2010)

Bugs fixed

An "Entry in ZIP not found" error would occur when NXPowerLite tried to optimize some PPTX files created with PowerPoint 2010
Embedded PDF documents in PowerPoint files could change size when double-clicked after optimization
Objects embedded as icons could disappear or change size when double-clicked after optimization
The picture representation of an embedded PDF object could look strange after optimization, depending on the version of Office used

Known problems

Embedded documents are not flattened in DOC files that are the main document for a mail merge operation
Flattened embedded documents in optimized DOC files become invisible if the file is subsequently used as the main document for a mail merge operation
Microsoft Outlook: Inline JPEG images in HTML email messages are not optimized

NXPowerLite Desktop Edition / Stand-Alone Edition 4.3 (17 November 2010)

Features

NXPowerLite can now optimize files created using Office 2010
NXPowerLite is now integrated with Office 2010 applications

Bugs fixed

PPTX files containing certain kinds of embedded objects could not be optimized due to a known bug in PowerPoint 2010

Known problems

Embedded documents are not flattened in DOC files that are the main document for a mail merge operation
Flattened embedded documents in optimized DOC files become invisible if the file is subsequently used as the main document for a mail merge operation
Microsoft Outlook: Inline JPEG images in HTML email messages are not optimized

NXPowerLite Desktop Edition / Stand-Alone Edition 4.2.3 (20 September 2010)

Bugs fixed

An error message could appear when running NXPowerLite under a non-administrator account, causing the evaluation period to expire prematurely
Blank messages would appear in non-English languages when NXPowerLite failed to optimize files created with Office 2010

Known problems

Embedded documents are not flattened in DOC files that are the main document for a mail merge operation
Flattened embedded documents in optimized DOC files become invisible if the file is subsequently used as the main document for a mail merge operation
PPTX files containing certain kinds of embedded objects cannot be optimized due to a known bug in PowerPoint 2010. We are working on a workaround for this bug, which will be included in late 2010
Microsoft Outlook: Inline JPEG images in HTML email messages are not optimized

NXPowerLite 4.2.3 now available

2 August 2010

We have today updated all NXPowerLite products to version 4.2.3. We recommend that all NXPowerLite users install the update, which is free of charge for existing NXPowerLite 4 users.

NXPowerLite Desktop Edition 4.2.3

Changes have been made to the free evaluation period. Previously users were given 20 trial uses, this has now changed to 30-day time period. The move is hoped to accelerate sales cycles.
The Desktop Edition has also been brought into line with improvements made in the development of NXPowerLite for File Servers/Small Business File Server. The optimization ‘engine’ is now aligned in both products and it has enabled us to enhance the interoperability between the products. This has introduced a more intelligent optimization process and should ensure better visual content integrity no matter how many times a file is optimized.
We have become aware of issues in processing files created in Office 2010. So, NXPowerLite will no longer optimize files created in Office versions later than 2008. Files created in Office 2010 will be skipped (Office 2010 support will be included in a forthcoming release, due later this year).
A number of bug fixes are also included in this release.

NXPowerLite for File Servers / NXPowerLite for Small Business File Servers 4.2.3

These products have been fully localized in both Japanese and German languages. A single installer has been made which incorporates the three languages. Each language will be displayed according to the regional settings of the machine on which NXPowerLite is installed.
NXPowerLite can now be installed and run on Windows 2000 SP4.
NXPowerLite will no longer optimize files created in Office versions later than 2008. Files created in Office 2010 will be skipped (Office 2010 support will be included in a forthcoming release, due later this year).
A number of bug fixes are also included in this release.

NXPowerLite 3.6.2 (17 June 2008)

Bugs fixed

Fixed a problem that could cause Word (DOC) files containing a mixture of Unicode and non-Unicode text to be corrupted when "Flatten embedded documents" is enabled
Fixed some minor problems with Simplified Chinese and Spanish translations
Fixed a problem that could cause pictures to disappear or mail merge operations not to work properly on DOC files

Known problems

Word 97 and 2000 will not allow an optimized DOC file to be saved after the user selects the "Edit Picture" option on a embedded document that has been flattened
Embedded documents are not flattened in DOC files that are the main document for a mail merge operation
Flattened embedded documents in optimized DOC files become invisible if the file is subsequently used as the main document for a mail merge operation

Other changes

The evaluation counter has been reset, so users get 10 trial uses even if their evaluation of a previous version of NXPowerLite has expired

NXPowerLite 3.6 (9 June 2008)

New features

Improved support for optimizing metafiles (WMF and EMF format)
Default optimization setting for Outlook add-in can now be set on a per-machine basis in the Registry
Licence agreement dialog can now be suppressed on a per-machine basis
Added Italian translation
Added Traditional Chinese translation

Bugs fixed

Embedded documents can now be flattened in many Word (DOC) files
Fixed a problem that could cause Excel to give an "unable to read file" error when opening an optimized XLS file
Fixed a problem that could cause images to be blurred or not compressed as much as they should be in PPT files
Fixed some problems that could cause the size of images in DOC files not to be detected properly (this could have caused images to be scaled down too far or not enough)
Fixed a problem that could cause images in XLS files saved by Excel 2007 to be blurred
Fixed an incorrect error message being displayed when attempting to optimize DOC or XLS files created in Word or Excel 95 or earlier
An "assertion failure" message could appear under certain rare circumstances; this is now fixed
Fixed "last optimized size" information not being preserved after optimized files (in Office 97-2003 binary formats) were opened and resaved from within an Office application
Clarified error message shown when attempting to optimize a password protected file
Fixed some minor problems with French and Simplified Chinese translations

Known problems

Optimized attachments may move to the end of the message when sending Rich Text emails from Outlook 2007 without Service Pack 1. This is a bug in Outlook 2007, and can be resolved by installing Outlook 2007 Service Pack 1
When an Office 2007 file has other Office 2007 documents embedded within it, the embedded documents are optimized rather than being flattened, even if 'Flatten embedded documents' is enabled
Pictures inside SmartArt objects are not currently optimized
When the same picture is placed inside a SmartArt object and elsewhere in the same Word, Excel or PowerPoint file, the optimized file may be degraded or unreadable
If a Word 2007 (DOCX) file contains two copies of an embedded document, one of which is inline and the other is floating, the inline object may be cropped or of poor quality in the optimized file
Under specific rare circumstances with Office 2007 files, colors in an optimized picture will be noticeably darker than in the original file

NXPowerLite 3.5.1 (18 March 2008)

Bugs fixed:

NXPowerLite no longer crashes Outlook when launched via Windows Explorer's "Send to mail recipient" feature
Outlook no longer gives the error message "Operation failed" when optimizing attachments to a Rich Text format email
PowerPoint 2007 no longer crashes when a flattened embedded document is double-clicked in an optimized PPT file
NXPowerLite no longer re-optimizes attachments that have already been optimized if another Outlook add-in cancels sending the message after NXPowerLite has optimized attachments
Fixed a problem that could cause the NXPowerLite application to crash in some rare circumstances
NXPowerLite no longer fails to optimize certain files in XLSX format with the error message "Entry in Zip not found"
Borders and backgrounds are no longer missing from embedded objects in optimized XLSX files
Fixed a problem that could cause optimized XLS files in some cases to be unreadable by Excel
Fixed a number of problems that could cause NXPowerLite to fail to optimize DOC and XLS files with the error message "I/O exception [HRESULT(0) – reading 0 bytes from stream]"

Known problems:

Optimized attachments may move to the end of the message when sending Rich Text emails from Outlook 2007 without Service Pack 1. This is a bug in Outlook 2007, and can be resolved by installing Outlook 2007 Service Pack 1.
Embedded documents in Word 97-2003 (DOC) files are not flattened even if 'Flatten embedded documents' is enabled
When an Office 2007 file has other Office 2007 documents embedded within it, the embedded documents are optimized rather than being flattened, even if 'Flatten embedded documents' is enabled
Pictures inside SmartArt objects are not currently optimized
When the same picture is placed inside a SmartArt object and elsewhere in the same Word, Excel or PowerPoint file, the optimized file may be degraded or unreadable
If a Word 2007 (DOCX) file contains two copies of an embedded document, one of which is inline and the other is floating, the inline object may be cropped or of poor quality in the optimized file
Under specific rare circumstances with Office 2007 files, colors in an optimized picture will be noticeably darker than in the original file

NXPowerLite 3.5 (15 January 2008)

New features:

NXPowerLite now supports Open XML file formats (such as DOCX, XLSX and PPTX), as used by Office 2007 and Office 2008
The Outlook add-in now has a 'Don't ask me this question again' option when asking whether to optimize attachments
NXPowerLite now appears in the 'Tools' menu in Office 2000-2003

Bugs fixed:

Fixed a problem that could cause optimization to fail with the message 'Raster Image processing exception [JPEG read error]' on Windows Vista and some locked-down installations of Windows 2000 and XP
Fixed an error 'I/O exception [HRESULT(0) - read 0 bytes]' that could occur while optimizing certain Word files
Fixed a problem that could cause NXPowerLite to report the size of a PowerPoint files as '0 bytes' when the file was open in NXPowerLite and being accessed over a network

Other changes:

Added support for Chinese language
Minor improvements to German and Japanese language translations
Known problems:
Embedded documents in Word 97-2003 (DOC) files are not flattened even if 'Flatten embedded documents' is enabled
When an Office 2007 file has other Office 2007 documents embedded within it, the embedded documents are optimized rather than being flattened, even if 'Flatten embedded documents' is enabled
Pictures inside SmartArt objects are not currently optimized
When the same picture is placed inside a SmartArt object and elsewhere in the same Word, Excel or PowerPoint file, the optimized file may be degraded or unreadable
If a Word 2007 (DOCX) file contains two copies of an embedded document, one of which is inline and the other is floating, the inline object may be cropped or of poor quality in the optimized file
Under specific rare circumstances with Office 2007 files, colors in an optimized picture will be noticeably darker than in the original file

NXPowerLite 3.0.5 (20 August 2007)

New features:

NXPowerLite now "tags" optimized files with a property that indicates the file's size after it was optimized - this property can be read using the NXPowerLite Development Kit

Bugs fixed:

Fixed a problem that could cause Outlook to crash when the user answered "no" to the prompt to optimize attachments
Fixed a problem that could cause NXPowerLite to crash while optimizing a Word document when Word 2000 is installed
Fixed a problem that caused Outlook 2000 not to exit properly when closed by the user
Fixed a problem that could cause the cryptic error message "I/O Exception [HRESULT(0) - read 0 bytes]" when repeatedly optimizing the same PowerPoint file

Other changes:

Added digital signatures to prevent warnings from Office applications when loading NXPowerLite add-ins

Known problems:

Embedded documents in Word files are not flattened even if "flatten embedded documents" is enabled. This is necessary to avoid document corruption until we can fix an underlying problem

NXPowerLite 3.0.3 (11 June 2007)

New features:

NXPowerLite can now be registered at install time using MSI properties (NXNAME and NXCODE)

Bugs fixed:

Fixed a crash that could occur when optimizing Word documents if Word 97 was installed
Fixed a problem that could prevent embedded objects from being flattened in Excel files
Fixed a problem that could cause corrupted files to be produced if the TMP or TEMP environment variables were set incorrectly
Fixed a problem that could result in corrupted Excel files being generated in rare cases

Other changes:

NXPowerLite now correctly displays an error message if the user attempts to optimize a password-protected Excel file, instead of just failing to optimize the file
Users now receive a more helpful error message when attempting to register NXPowerLite 3 with a registration code for version 2
Files created in old versions of PowerPoint (PowerPoint 95 and earlier) are now detected as PowerPoint files (although NXPowerLite is still unable to optimize them)

Known problems:

Embedded documents in Word files are not flattened even if "flatten embedded documents" is enabled. This is necessary to avoid document corruption until we can fix an underlying problem

NXPowerLite 3.0.2 (19 April 2007)

New features:

Improved user interface when optimizing single files from within PowerPoint, Word or Excel

Bugs fixed:

Fixed a problem that would sometimes cause PowerPoint 2002 to crash when viewing optimized files
Fixed some problems that could cause NXPowerLite to crash while optimizing Word or Excel files
Fixed some problems that could cause NXPowerLite to crash or quit without warning when while optimizing certain Excel files
Fixed a problem that could cause NXPowerLite to fail with a "too many open files" error while optimizing certain Excel files
Fixed some problems that could cause NXPowerLite to produce Excel files that Excel cannot open
Fixed some translation-related problems

Other changes:

Installer no longer requires JScript to be installed
"Flatten embedded documents" option in batch processing dialog now matches the setting in the Tools/Options dialog

NXPowerLite 3.0.1 (1 March 2007)

Bugs fixed:

"Email" and "Zip & Email" features now work properly when requested to operate on original files
Fixed a problem that could cause a warning to be displayed about saving changes to "normal.dot" on some locked-down installations of Word
Fixed a problem that made it difficult to agree to the license agreement on German or Spanish versions of Windows

Other changes:

Improved integration with Word 2000
Improved Japanese language translation
User can no longer begin batch processing without specifying an output folder

NXPowerLite 3.0 (20 February 2007)

New features:

NXPowerLite can now optimize Word documents and Excel spreadsheets
It is now possible to drag multiple files and/or folders onto the NXPowerLite icon

Other changes:

Various user interface enhancements
New MSI installer
Windows 98 and ME no longer supported
Danish language no longer supported

NXPowerLite 2.5 (8 December 2006)

New features:

PowerPoint and Outlook add-ins can now be installed into Office 2007
NXPowerLite now detects when the user is trying to optimize a PowerPoint 2007 (PPTX) file and offers suitable advice
NXPowerLite can now optimize PowerPoint files saved in the combined ("PowerPoint 97-2003 & 95") format
NXPowerLite can now be registered at install time using command-line options
NXPowerLite will now detect per-machine registration details

Bugs fixed:

Fixed a problem that could cause the "Email" option to fail silently with multilingual file names
Fixed a problem that could cause NXPowerLite to crash when optimizing presentations containing very large images
Fixed a problem that could cause distortion of images inserted using the "Photo Album" feature and then rotated
Fixed a problem that, under certain unusual circumstances, would cause NXPowerLite to ignore attempts to add files to be optimized
Fixed some layout problems with the license agreement dialog box

Other changes:

NXPowerLite will no longer allow the user to delete original files in cases where an optimized file has not been created

NXPowerLite 2.4.1 (12 October 2006)

New features:

NXPowerLite has been fully tested for compliance with the US Section 508 accessibility standard

Bugs fixed:

Fixed a problem causing poor image quality when optimizing some line drawings (1-bit-per-pixel images)
Fixed a problem causing non-ASCII characters in filenames within a Zip file to be garbled
Fixed a problem that could cause email functionality not to work on Far Eastern systems
Fixed some translation problems and added translations for some missing phrases

Other changes:

When adding folders, a progress dialog appears with a cancel button so that the process may be interrupted
Duplicate filenames are now renamed when adding to a Zip file, and a warning is displayed
Menus are now available when the 'Cancel All' option is selected
Various small user interface improvements

NXPowerLite 2.4 (18 September 2006)

New features:

New post-optimize menu added, enabling users to 'Open', 'Delete', Email' or 'Zip' their presentations
New compression mode for mobile devices
It is now possible to select entire folders for optimization, as well as individual files
Several windows are now resizable, allowing better use to be made of larger displays

Bugs fixed:

Improved product stability
The Windows Explorer extension, PowerPoint and Outlook add-ins have been improved for Windows 98 users
Fixed a problem that occasionally caused the Outlook add-in to behave as though it was set to "Never optimize" when it was actually set to "Ask Me"
Fixed a problem that caused the progress bar to restart from zero when optimizing presentations with multiple embedded PowerPoint presentations

Other changes:

NXPowerLite now displays more helpful error messages
In batch processing mode, optimized files may now be given the same names as the original files (providing this does not result in the original files being overwritten)
The "Optimize with NXPowerLite..." option now now appears on the Windows Explorer right-click menu even if some non-PowerPoint files are selected
Users clicking the cancel button are now given the choice of cancelling optimization of either the current presentation or the entire batch

NXPowerLite 2.3.1 (25 August 2006)

Bugs fixed:

Fixed bug in preserve date/time feature

NXPowerLite 2.3 (27 June 2006)

New features:

Batch processing
Option to preserve the date/time of the original file
Now optimizes presentations embedded within presentations
Server Edition launched

Bugs fixed:

Fixed possible corruption of presentations exported from Apple Keynote

Other changes:

Explanation added to JPEG quality option

NXPowerLite 2.2.3 (11 May 2006)

Bugs fixed:

Improved stability of Outlook Integration (Integrated Edition)

Other changes:

Better detection of encrypted presentation files

NXPowerLite 2.2.2 (24 March 2006)

Bugs fixed:

Improved stability of Outlook Integration (Integrated Edition)

No changes made to Standard Edition

NXPowerLite 2.2.1 (20 March 2006)

New features:

Integration with Microsoft Outlook (Integrated Edition)
Option to select recent presentations from the 'File' menu

Other changes:

General speed improvements
Improvements to the Integrated Edition installation process
Better support for multilingual file names
Added support for Japanese and Spanish languages
Windows 95, 98 and ME no longer supported (Standard Edition)
Windows 95 no longer supported (Integrated Edition)

NXPowerLite 2.1 (6 January 2006)

New features:

Now optimizes CMYK images
Option to optimize presentations for mobile devices (320x240 pixels)

Other changes:

Faster processing of Windows metafiles
Registration process now tolerates leading and/or trailing spaces in the registration code
Better support for ICC color profiles

NXPowerLite 2.0.1 (17 November 2005)

Bugs fixed:

Embedded objects are now properly handled if 'Flatten embedded objects' option is switched off
Fixed crash that occurred with certain PNG images

Other changes:

Better detection of presentations created with old versions of PowerPoint (pre-97)
Better detection of encrypted presentations
Added a warning message if the input file doesn't appear to be a PowerPoint file

NXPowerLite 2.0 (1 November 2005)

New features:

Works directly with the PowerPoint file format
Speed and performance improvements
Streamlined user interface
No longer requires PowerPoint to be installed
Images containing transparency now optimized
Integrated Edition launched

Other changes:

Added support for Danish language

NXPowerLite 1.54 (16 May 2005)

Bugs fixed:

Fixed some problems with display of registered username

Other changes:

Added support for French and German languages
User interface now looks more "native" on Windows XP